Our city has a point of civic pride we didn’t even know about: our very own sauce. Dallas sauce is named in our honor, but it’s from Belgium, and nobody in Dallas actually served it. Until now.
I should confess up front that the campaign to bring Dallas sauce to Dallas is my own invention. I spotted advertising for the sauce while visiting Brussels in 2017, and began an investigation in 2022. We ordered some bottles from Belgium to the D Magazine offices and conducted a taste test. Afterwards, I distributed spare bottles to a trio of chefs around town. To recap: Dallas sauce was named after the TV soap opera, its Belgian production company is owned by a lifelong Mavs fan, and it tastes sweet from caramelized onions with a bit of tartness and spice, kind of like a spicy Cane’s sauce.
But you don’t have to trust me. You can now, finally, order some Dallas sauce for yourself, made in Dallas, by Dallasites…